turc1656

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by turc1656 7y ago
Wow, really? Did not know or expect that. Not intuitive that they should be that expensive. In my mind they are just giant blocks of shaped concrete and should be extraordinarily simple to put together compared to something like a mall.
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by turc1656 7y ago
The main issue he cites seem to be parking taking up so much space. Wouldn't a parking deck solve this? Build a 6 story garage and the 18% goes to 3%.
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by turc1656 7y ago
While it's true the Dow doesn't take into account market cap because it is a price weighted index, it is not true that removing a $5 security and adding a $105 one jumps the index $100 in value. Every index has a divisor, which
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by turc1656 7y ago
MagicBands are awesome. Took the family to Disney last year and it made everything a breeze. Photos, food plans, park/hotel/room access. Everything. All professional photos from the photographers walking around were just in ou
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by turc1656 7y ago
My goals for such meetings are simple. 1) Determine if I am still meeting expectations 2) Figure out what I should be working on. This sounds dumb, but if you work on a varied set of projects/tasks that change all the time like I do
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by turc1656 7y ago
I work in this industry. We have detailed reports on damn near everything, including private hedge funds and how they perform. 80-85% of any active management or financial advisory services have not beat low cost index investing over the
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by turc1656 7y ago
I have used Personal Capital to pull in all the transactions and classify them into expenditure groups (entertainment, meals, utilities, etc.). Once you do it for a month or two, it pretty much knows what everything is (and knows a lot by
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by turc1656 7y ago
Very interesting proposal. I actually remember hearing some professor (of some sort of biological/sociological background) describe birth control as arguably creating a new species as far as females go because never before did they ha
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by turc1656 7y ago
I second this. Was going to post but saw I was beaten to it already.
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by turc1656 7y ago
My lack of trust is the sole reason I never had email on my phone until a few months ago. I moved to ProtonMail and I use their app (which is great). I trust them. It's possible I'm wrong, but I know how they make money and if
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by turc1656 7y ago
It seems it's time again for the reminder that if you aren't paying you are the product, not the customer. I don't understand how people don't understand this in 2020, after at least 2 decades of this nonsense. Or do t
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by turc1656 7y ago
This is some great info for the less technically knowledgeable about Tor (like me!). However, I think your math in #3 is wrong. Assuming random assignment/selection of the guards, each time one is chosen it has a 98% chance of not bei
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by turc1656 7y ago
Correct, but all of that is void if the data presented is any sort of protected information (copyright, IP, etc.). You can't, for example, scrape Yahoo Finance for pricing and dividend history and republish on your own stock tools web
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by turc1656 7y ago
You're referring to survivorship bias and yes, that's a factor. But while there was a fair amount of garbage topping the charts when I was a teenager, there was also a fair bit of great songs as well. For a variety of reasons, t
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by turc1656 7y ago
[joker voice] I have given a name to my pain...and it is millennial whoop. Seriously, though - this is interesting and I'm glad I know have an additional, identifiable reason why modern pop sucks so bad. I saw one of the YT commenters
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by turc1656 7y ago
I think you may be confusing bravado/ego/bombast with actual desire and by extension, risk.
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by turc1656 7y ago
I keep getting "forbidden" when entering any search. Anyone else having this issue?
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by turc1656 7y ago
Exactly. People love to bitch about Excel but any other product I've tried fails miserably handling the many large files we have at work. I'm talking "epic failure" level performance from any other product I've tr
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by turc1656 7y ago
First impressions are much, much, much more important than anyone can imagine. You've been told they are important, but you may not realize how true that was. People like to make a decision about a person and it's incredibly dif
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by turc1656 7y ago
It's not different. I think that's their point. FOSS like Linux doesn't automagically make it "safer" than proprietary systems like Windows.
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by turc1656 7y ago
Being suspicious of activity monitoring is one thing. Being suspicious that one of the largest companies in the world is actually keylogging your passwords so that they can steal bitcoins is another. Or that a few rogue employees at said
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by turc1656 7y ago
The whole list reminded me of the film Idiocracy. Any/all of these would fit perfectly into that movie.
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by turc1656 7y ago
Mike Judge, Matt Stone, and Trey Parker are jealous of this list.
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by turc1656 7y ago
That's not how I took that sentence. I read that to mean that a lot of people like to treat many things as black and white and have the approach of "if you disagree with me you are not as virtuous as I am", which is what we
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by turc1656 7y ago
I get what you're saying. But I've adapted my thinking over the years. I'll try to put it as succinctly as I can get it since this sort of topic can obviously take up far more than a comment on a forum. I view religion as a
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by turc1656 7y ago
Ignoring the overall ethical issue for those employing the child laborers and looking purely at the lawsuit, it seems to have no merit and appears to be designed specifically to create a bad PR campaign for these companies and to draw atten
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by turc1656 7y ago
Glad to hear things are working well for you as well. Any halfway intelligent manager wouldn't be stupid enough to just toss you or anyone like you. They see value/skills that can be put to use elsewhere. Anyone with a growth m
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by turc1656 7y ago
In my personal experience this generally isn't an issue. If you have the necessary skills to automate your own job, chances are your employer has other work they want you to do. I worked at a fintech company for a few years a while ba
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by turc1656 7y ago
Good for you. I never had any of those types of services except for Facebook and I never used that much at all. So, I don't know what it's like to "unplug" in that regard, but I can imagine how much it must suck to be
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by turc1656 7y ago
That's a helluva analogy. But I like it. More to the overall point, I find it incredibly ironic that while the world is constantly talking about diversity, uniqueness, and all those wonderful things, everyone is simultaneously trying

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